(Fwd) Re: Smoking on the field (fwd)

["Scott Dean" <nacspsd@acs2.acs.ncsu.edu>]

Poster: "Scott Dean" <nacspsd@acs2.acs.ncsu.edu>

> > 
> > BIG HAIRY EXAMPLE:  Atlantian Kingdom Law specifically
> > prohibits smoking in any of an event's main areas.  Yet on
> > a regular basis, I see Marshals and fighters light up in the
> > middle of a tourney field.  I haven't heard of anyone being
> > brought up before a Court of Courtesy or Chivalry for it.
> 
> That would be using a sledgehammer on a tack, wouldn't it?
> 
<SNIP>
> 
> As is not surprising, the southern (tobacco-producing) parts of the
> Kingdom are much more cigarette-smokey than the northern parts.  North of
> Richmond I am rarely engulfed by a cloud of someone else's smoke.  In
> South Carolina it is more common.
> 
> Dafydd

Pardon me while I vent:

But I found that it really detracted from the mood of Crown Tourney 
when one of the major Peers of the kingdom dropped his cigarette butt 
in the middle of tourney field TWICE.  This when the event flier has specifically requested that smokers 
"self-police".  Maybe His Grace went back after the tourney and 
picked up the butts....<high degree of scepticism here>

Ok, I'm done.

Barkeep, a pint of cider if you would please.

-- Manus MacDhai
   Kappellenberg/Windmasters' Hill

mka
   Scott Dean
   NC State University
   Raleigh, NC  
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